239911 - translate tool for email messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Bogdan Stroe]

It would be nice to have a translate tool for email messages. Something similar
to Tools->Translate Page from the browser.

I'm not sure this is the right component, could somebody confirm that?

Comment 1

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

We can leave it here for the moment, but I think eventually, it would go to
Tbird's MailWindow component.

I see a big issue here.  A very big one.  Privacy.

The way the feature works in mozilla is it sends the URL of the page to a
publically available service (I believe google).  Now we could also feed content
itself I believe... BUT

I'd be very cautious, because some may consider this a huge privacy deal, even
though they would select the feature from a menu.

At the very least it would need to warn at the first attempt:

"To translate, [AppName] will need to send the text of this message to
[serviceName]".  Do you wish to do so?
( Yes ) (( No ))     [] Do not prompt again

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420